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Is light pollution killing our birds......????????
Read the Challenge pdf - "Is Light Pollution Killing Our Birds?" (and other animals)! It has been doing so for over 113 years?The really serious problem is that NO ONE will research this insect decline hypothesis and the more widespread "hidden" harm that is being done. Read HERE that no-one has listened for at least 113 year in my "new missive"! BTW, did YOU know that dead insects, even today, can be found piling "knee deep"? Just like Copenhagen, the climate summit, 2009 - no one listens - we will be JTL - Just Too Late! A vicious circle of decline? - Just as Colin Henshaw said in 1994! (Media interests look HERE - some URLs are now redundant- sorry). A reminder of IDA member David Crawford from 1991 - the warnings are repeated at regular intervals - they are just IGNORED - we really will be JTL! Dark skies over Lymm - Chris Reeves wins back the night for Lymm, Cheshire, in 2010. Please be thinking of World Earth Hour, 27 March 2010! At least they "thought" about it in Copenhagen! NOW THE WWF RELEASE THE LATEST VIDEO FOR WORLD EARTH HOUR 27 MARCH 2010 8.30-9.30 PM. Please join in and make a difference - WWF UK have sent me the URL of their video for this year 2010 - enjoy and join in! BTW Have YOU signed up for Earth Hour 2010? - Shelly Quinton in Stretford, Manchester, England, friend of Victoria Park, tells me that she has - have YOU? BTW we have ignored the concept that circadian disruption in the environment is damaging for over 113 years - is the mobile phone having similar "hidden" effects NOW? Perhaps politicians and more scientists should be better focussing their research? Please do not forget Late Brealing a few scrolls below! Colin Henshaw has created a Mauritian Creole translation of this page HERE - enjoy! The pdf version is HERE. The header article is from Challenge magazine, Summer 2006. Three years on, Summer 2009, things have changed. People now think that turning off UNNECESSARY lights at night is a GOOD idea. Or fit PIR lighting controls on street lights. At last the penny is dropping? BTW we have a Late Breaking News segway a few scrolls down this page. Please give it a coat of looking at. Thanks. I give the definition of UNNECESSARY from Collins dictionary HERE. At PMQs 28-Oct-2009 Gordon Brown said he WILL turn off lights on Downing Street for the CfDS - WHEN? He seemed to be remarkably patronising! BTW Parliament had a discussion 29 Oct 2009 on Light Pollution - Oral Answers To Questiosn - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. More COMPLACENCY and ignorance from UK Government? Listen to Mr. Peter "Lights ON" Hain, MP - HERE! Learn more of the Government complacency, once again from PM Gordon Brown, as a 17 year old asks about light pollution, in the Leicester Mercury HERE. Robin Bonell, half way down the page, had first been described as an "astrologer" until this correction HERE!. PS Copenhagen WILL BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME - see Late Breaking below. Light Pollution - The Problem. Dr John Mason's video's excerpt from Portsmouth, 2006. Dr. Darren Baskill has placed new video links HERE to a selection from 2006. He tells me that he is adding even more - 19 October 2009. They are HERE now! BTW LP as an historic problem can be traced back to 1897 - YES 1897! Astronomers use the term ‘light pollution’ or LP (sometimes also called light at night or LAN) to describe the effect of artificial night lighting obscuring the stars. Professor Fred Watson, author of “Why Is Uranus Upside Down?", gives his thoughts on light pollution and astronomy but he also expresses the wider concerns to be found here and in other web pages. BTW the first UK Dark Sky sites have been inaugurated in Scotland. National Assembley For Wales - Supports the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies - the CfDS. Further to this Galloway Forest is up for an IDA Dark Sky Park award -The Times - well done Galloway! Galloway Forest NOW HAS its Dark Sky Status. Use Dan Nixon's Dark Sky Simulator to see just how good the GF really is HERE. - The GF is between Glasgow and Stranraer. Learn what YOU are missing in this VIDEO from the USA! BLINDED BY THE LIGHT? The CfDS hanbook describing the wider consequencies of the 24 hour day. You may have already read the frontispiece. Now you can buy the handbook itself. Available from The CfDS, c/o 38 The Vineries, Colehill, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 2PX, United Kingdom. Here in the UK the unit price is about £3 per copy, including post and packaging. Over 70 copies were given to Armagh delegates and more recently environmentalists at a meeting in Cardiff received delegate copies as well - I hope that people read them? If they do not then we really will be JTL. Profs Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Mark Edmunds, Monica Grady and astronomy historian Dr. Alan Chapman have their copies - do YOU? Even Climate Secretary, MP Ed Miliband has a copy- as does Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, MP and his deputy Dr. Vince Cable, MP (his is signed by the webmaster because he signed my copy of his book The Storm! ). Even Trafford MP, Graham Brady has a copy. He likes chapter 4 best, whcih deals with the harm of LAN to human health.NB - The 9th European Dark Sky conference, Armagh Northern Ireland, 18-19 September 2009. Professor Steve Lockley spoke LIVE from Harvard Medical Center. This was a FANTASTIC Dark Sky Symposium - the BEST ever. Children from Mount St. Catherine's Primary School, Armagh sing Starry, Starry Night on Youtube to remind us of what we have lost. You can access the conference presentations as the web site develops its archive. A MUST for environmentalists, astronomers and those who care (which may also include politicians - Colin Tudge's "public enemy NUMBER ONE"?). Enjoy the archive when it is up and running. Have a look here at the Galaxy That We Have Lost to LP/LAN - our own, the Milky Way.BTW WHY DOESN'T PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT HU OF CHINA LISTEN TO THE 9TH EUROPEAN DARK SKY SYMPOSIUM? PERHAPS THEY DO NOT WANT THE TRUTH? IT IS OUT THERE - OR ARE THEY JUST "BLINDED BY THE LIGHT?"Francis Parnell suggested - 'Since the "natural environment" after sunset is darkness, maybe we should call it what it really is - night pollution.' Is the 24 hour day killing off "Life On Earth"? It appears that National Geographic agree with some aspects of these concepts? And so too does Starry Night Lights! BTW LP/LAN is killing biodiversity in Old Saigon? Now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Here you can read the quote that "In the long term, light pollution will possibly have DANGEROUS effects on ecological diversity" If the Vietnam URLs fail try this HERE! - (LA Times said the same 1897!) And someone in Can Tho, Minh Hai, Vietnam has Googled "reduce light in the UK" and found this web site. I hope that they link to the Ho Chi Minh City site? This movie, of LP in the US of A, from 1950 thru 2025, is fantastic HERE. Just scroll a little bit down the page to access the movie. The webmaster has created an (inferior) version for Europe HERE. Please excuse the political irony at the video end. The City "Domes" of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs and WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? by Chris Paine You can buy the DVD here in the UK for only £4.99 P+P free. Please make a New Year Resolution to join in with World Earth Hour, 27th March 2010 - Scotland is - will YOU? BTW, if you join in with WEH will you be interested in GAM 2010? or Globe at Night, 3-16 March, 2010. It's all happening? A very big THANK YOU to this web site's visitors. You have HIT this web site 57,313 times since September 2006 when I created it. It currently gets ~77 hits per day - Wednesday 10th March 2010 - The site has "HIT" over 57,000 in only 3 years or thereabouts - neat huh?. The webmaster visited the 9th European Dark Sky Symposium, in Armagh, NI, 18-19 September, 2009 - it was just "brilliant"! My JTL presentation can be found HERE, about 1hr10mins into the video, after BATS and TURTLES! Please tell your friends about the hidden "passive" harm caused by light at night (LAN), often called light pollution (LP). Although strictly LP is a SYMPTOM of LAN. Moreover tell others why turning OFF UNNECESSARY, repeat UNNECESSARY, light at night is good for everyone and good for Life, the Universe and Everything. If we do not then maybe LAN will become the "new"asbestos (from an idea of Dr. Barry Clark, Australia)? With massive, unnecessary, litigation cases wasting more money. (It has already been the "new" DDT for over 112 years?). My JTL Armagh presentation, as a single video, can be viewed HERE. The pdf version can be loaded HERE - enjoy? Hopefully YOU will not be too depressed - if we can educate our leaders we will succeed. The future is up to YOU! Please do NOT fail that future. BACK TO THE FUTURE - Living today the future that was predicted in 1994? - or even 1897 " Lights (at night) could well eliminate insects over a large area. As the insect population declines, this will have an effect on the predators higher up in the food chain which feed on them. This would include many birds, lizards and frogs and small mammals (including bats). These effects would be above and beyond those already caused by loss of habitat through urbanisation. Many insects are pollinators of flowering plants, so as the insect population goes down the number of flowers successfully pollinated may also decline. This will lead to fewer plants and less plant diversity in years to come. Since many insects feed on plants the size of the insect population will further decline as we have fewer plants. A similar observation was made in September 1897 - YES that is right September 1897 acording to the LA Times. (Information courtesy of Dr. Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group, California, USA). You can read the transcript as a DOC file HERE. BTW Wikipedia carries this page describing the decline of an English songbird NOW! They have been in decline for 113 years - no-one listened then and no-one listens now - a bit like Copenhagen? < - - LATE BREAKING - - >FOR THOSE NEW TO THIS SITE, LIGHT AT NIGHT CAN BE ENERGY WASTE - THIS CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING, "NO LONGER A THEORY, BUT A HARSH REALITY" SO REDUCE CLIMATE CHANGE BY TURNING OFF UNNECESSARY LIGHT AT NIGHT You can read the definiton of UNNECESSARY from Collins dictionary HERE. Please know the FACTS of light pollution/light at night & tell friends.If you are from the UK then please add your name to these anti LP petitions. Every little helps. 10 Downing Street and the Welsh Assembly - which ended 31/1/2010. BTW I have found another WORLD LP petition site HERE - go for it. Sadly it seems that no one knows this petition. Tell your friends after YOU have signed up! The Las Vegas strip to turn its light OFF for World Earth Hour - and FOX say it so it must be true! Brian Cox tells us on the BBC that we do not know what the Universe is made of - clearly he does not realise that few today can even see it? The reason being LIGHT POLLUTION - killing off Life On Earth? Energy groups relieved that sage grouse won't be listed. I wonder what sage grouse think? The energy exploiters will profit at the FUTURE expense of the sage grouse? C'est la vie that JTL future. It's just so sad! Light pollution in Orion. Join the World in Globe At Night - Sky & Telescope will tell you how to help HERE. BTW Join The World reminds me of Feed The World, of Live Aid 1984. More bad news from the Arctic (for us and not just the polar bears) - Scientific American: Methane bubbles in Arctic in seas stir warming fears. More proof that Copenhagen was the Munich of OUR times? And just remember what Munich led to! Light causing GLARE kills not only insects at the base of the food chain - it kills CCTV ability to see criminals. "Glare from lamps is causing such poor picture quality that individuals filmed committing a crime cannot be identified." Rubbish street lighting is rubbish at all times! This story was from Sussex. Surrey however update their streetlights to save money, save carbon emissions, help the environment with dimming and reduce light pollution. Neat huh? A thought for today - from 40 years ago! "Anyone who believes in indefinite growth of amything physical on a finite planet is either a madman or an ECONOMIST!" Kenneth Boulding, President John F. Kennedy's environment advisor speaking 40 years ago. Makes you think, doesn't it? Ferrari hybrid supercar with recursive energy recovery. I hope that it has a plug in capability for overnight charging. Imagine the fuel consumption reduction when stuck in traffic jams! BTW the Tesla Sport Roadster does 0-60 in about 3.5 seconds! Neat huh? If we charge our EVs overnight we can reduce the need for street lights to provide base load consumption - we use the otherwise wasted energy currently lighting the bums of birds at night? And which has been killing off the base of the insectivore food chain for 113 years? EPA Failure to Recognise Light as Pollution at Odds with Science: Effects on wildlife continue! Three years on and still nothing is being done - we really will be JTL! Students at Pennsylvania College look at this web site, you do BUT do your friends? How about telling them that the 24 hour day is perhaps killing off Life On Earth and that a real simple solution is to turn off unnecessary lights? Arene't you real glad that you do not live in Taiwan? What is more China is really living the American Dream of exploitation? Poor old polar bears - you do not have a chance in the economy of the future, driven by growth at all cost and not by sustainability of bio-diversity? BTW got an allergy - then blame global warming. The oil oligopoly and Nigel Lawson, once the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, don't believe in global warming BUT the coffee growers do - they are experiencing it! When will you experience it - when it is JTL? Trailer of "Blackout" a documentary on light pollution by María Ángeles Vivanco. Just watch this and learn what is wrong with the 24 hour day - I just think that it is killing off Life On Earth? This new LP video documentary lasts 10 minutes and describes what the IDA should be in the last 2 minutes - well done Taylor Alexandra, very well done. A message to managers of US dark sky sites - someone in the USA (Hopkinson, Massachusetts) asked this question of Google - "where in the US is there no light pollution" I was unable to see any dark sky parks listed - can YOU? The climate change skeptics are using the recent cold WEATHER to justify their skepticism. - how crude is that? Scienetists however believe that the "World warming is unhindered by the cold spell". Manchester's Light Brigade prepared to photograph offices leaving "unnecessary" lights on at night, Tuesday 23rd February..... They met up at the Kro bar, Piccadilly. .... And Manchester Confidential are now giving them support. Light Brigade members photographed in the Kro bar, Piccadilly, Manchester, 23rd February, 2010. Profit, greed and exploitation prevail over precaution. Democrats oppose global warming rules. We really will be JTL in the future that today's politicians are creating for tomorrow's kids. Sad, so sad! But don't forget that these same politicians are "public enemy number one" - according to author Colin Tudge. You can read below that "The Earth Is Not Enough", that Jon Travolta was told that if he failed today the future will pay HIM back with interest. Have you heard that Tomorrow Never Dies? But we will and our hopes for that future is now unsustainable, because of media complacency and corporate greed? Seems like mid-west Americans will have to live underground, because hurricanes will be stronger (but fewer in mumber, so there is some good news?) The problem then thoogh will be sea level rises, if they live underground? Seems like the warning given Jon Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, about the future, may well still come home to haunt? Once again the BBC get it wrong! I have just watched Country File (now viewable on iPlayer) Ten minutes in they discuss renewable energy with kids and they even talk about keeping the lights ON - WHY? If the lights do go out the bats and other nocturnal creatures (insects?) stand a chance of recovering their night time habitat. If we turn off unnecessary lights then we do what my local kids do - they save energy and reduce CO2. Why are Country File researchers so silly? Learn why the Lights Could Actually Go Out by 2016 - and a good thing too! It's a year old but it remains relevant today - NATURE: Josef Settele claims that "Ecologists should join astronomers to oppose light pollution" - Colin Henshaw said this in 1994. Funny how home truths just keep coming home - sadly they are just ignored. Read this warning from 1897 - no one listened then (113 years ago!) and no one is listening now - why oh why oh why? Obama rebukes climate skeptics - I am reminded of Munich 1938 once again? Obama might well be perceived as "job killing" today (critics seem to think that "killing the planet" is OK!) but he will at least make for a sustainable tomorrow. Sadly too many arrogant, ignorant accountants and bankers lack the ability to see the need for sustainabilitiy - their only imperative is profit, profit and profit. The future be damned if today's balance sheet looks good! Jon Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever" learned that today's failures will pay you back with interest! (See below). Canadian tar sands are the beginning of the end! The WWF and the Co-Op are against this ignorant, arrogant developemnt to keep the bankers happy? BTW the WWF need your help - Earth Hour is back by popular demand, Go for it! "Municipalities should adopt a smart policy (which) should reduce illumination when and where not absolutely necessary, and prevent excessive light pollution which appears to be a general environmental hazard to human health. So now YOU know and what are YOU going to do about it - tell city fathers? Another wider overview including the problem with prostate cancer can be found HERE from Dawn Smith. Not wanting to see the light, by working on regulations to protect the night sky in Bridgeton, USA. Well done Bridgeton resisdents, very well done, saving the night sky, pocket book dollars and the natural rural environment! In Taiwan apparently LEDs to be dimmed because of "eye fatigue" and other issues. The penny is dropping, even for energy efficient LEDs! Neat huh? People are learning unnecessary lighting awareness - at long last. Earth - Europe from space at night - From Professor Andreas Haenel (Dark Sky Germany) the latest NASA/DMSP satellite "LP" surveys to 2008. To me the rate of increase in LP will hit us well before 2025 that was predicted by Cinzano, Falchi and Elvidge all those years ago when 2025 was so far off in the future. Not so long now until we have NO NIGHT anywhere in Europe? OXFAM - Climate Change In Tajikistan - Entire swathes of the rural population have sufferd greatly and are barely able to feed themselves. Clearly then not a problem for anyone in the West? So no-one is worried! The recession and the price of oil are far more important? Pulse Of The Planet - Dark Skies - Turn Out The Lights This request echoes some thoughts that my wife and niece had today - some food for thought? "One planet is not enough for ALL on planet Earth to live the modern "American dream" - especially now that India and China are starting to live that dream? The Earth is not enough! (Courtesy James Bond)." Amusing but with a "weird" presentation? PLUG OUT but plug in and see the constellations - the video! The latest WWF UK video to promote World Earth Hour, 27th March. NASA, by the way, tell me that their shuttle crew may well watch out for Earth Hour cities switching off their lights during their R & R- neat huh? The rats are leaving the sinking ship of Earth - sad that they have nowhere to go? CONOCO, BP and Caterpillar leave climate coalition. Whilst in George W. Bush's oil state of Texas, they challenge EPS's greenhouse gas findings! Francis Parnell reminds me of Psalm 19 "The Heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of HIS hands." Whatever YOUR God we can paraphrase today and state that the cheap oil oligopoly has created the scenario that NOW "The heavens declare the folly of man; the night skies proclaim the waste of his hand." Is man's other hand in his back pocket - only looking after his own pocket book and not caring about his fellow human beings? Not expanding drilling will cost the USA $2.4 trillion. Yes but what will be the greater cost to the environment of drilling? Please remember the banking crisis - you pay later for short term gain today and you pay with interest - at YOUR expense! An interesting article from 2009 - It is requested that the EPA "support education about light pollution in the agency's education, outreach, and grant programs" and that it codify a definition of "light pollution" that would take into account the environmental, safety, and health effects of nighttime outdoor lighting. Now you are talking - and about time too! TIME: UK scientists find "that the changes in biological events were greater toward the bottom of the food chain than they were at the top. " Golly gosh - nothing NEW here then! An English journal said this in 1897 and so too did Colin Henshaw in 1994 - but no one listens. When the base of the food chain fails we ALL fail? Folks in Missouri have lost the night sky - now some of them want it back! Listen to the audio HERE. You can read below that I have my doubts about the Copenhagen accord - what do YOU think about this ? Climate: Is the Copenhagen accord already dead? It was dead the day that it was conceived! Please do not forget that Copenhagen is the Munich of our times? Just been watching Jon Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever" (Sat 13 Feb 2010) - interesting, the comment 10 minutes in, about what the future does to YOU? It does this because of what YOU do TODAY! The future catches up with YOU, if YOU ain't planned for it. Before the film is over these words prove prophetic! Ironic huh? What WE do today pays us back tomorrow - nothing new there then - we really will be JTL? You will have heard the saying that "there are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see!" Well the climate change skeptics are certainly "BLIND", however theirs is not a visual impairment - theirs is an intellectual failure. We really are JTL! We had it with the bankers - now we have it with politicans failing to properly manage, (our natural environment this time) - UTAH HOUSE tells feds to end emissions moves? Save your money only for today, like NOT fixing the roof leak, and pay MORE later, because of a failure to act now! We have heard it all before - once again JTL- I just hope that I am wrong. Climate change debates continue apace. New Federal Climate Change Agency Forming - but will it walk the walk - talk is easy? Study:Climate change impact on soil underestimated - clearly a need for MORE research? And finally - Bolivia expects 5,00 foreigners for climate forum. Surely they can use SKYPE and reduce the carbon waste of air travel? Astromers Without Borders - AWB. Now promo'd by the venerable SKY & TELESCOPE here. Learn that the sky above does not have boundaries - it belongs to ALL of planet Earth and kids today have totally lost the night sky of the so called "developed" world. Real sad but true! I just read an article about J.D. Salinger and the bit about his character, Seymour who, talking about writers, asks "Were most of your stars out?". With kids today no longer being able to see the stars we will surely have a future bereft of literary icons. You know what I said about Copenhagen from reading my comments below - now I read "COPENHAGEN: The MUNICH of our times". Remember Munich preceded WWII, when people like Churchill were ignored, just like others were ignored in Copenhagen. History will come back to haunt today's politicians. Chamberlain perhaps died in shame (with a damaged reputation) - will Brown do the same? On an optimistic note I quote Malini Mehra who says "It may well be that Cancun can, what Copenhagen could not!" Fingers crossed that she is correct or once again we will be JTL? CPRE celebrity supporters believe that the problem is REAL! Do you? Do street lights invade YOUR bedroom at night? Watch the video HERE. The CRC commitment to end "on-all-night" lighting - and about time too! Something to give nocturnal creatures like bat, owls and insects a chance to live. BTW see Sir David Attenborough on the LHS tab to understand why. This from the CBI - Will the UK meet its 2020 climate change target? Time to focus on energy effciency. Said something like this in 2006 only I said the deadline was about 2016. This story about the wasted energy creating light pollution in Hong Kong may become more relevant as we approach World Earth Hour next March 27th? Will the UK and Hong Kong join in? - I certainly hope so! Lawmakers say California climate laws can "go to hell"? Sod planet Earth and our fellow creatures! Another complacent Government Minister - this time Ed "Lights On" Miliband. Today's news that we face energy problems. Professor Ian Fell said so years ago and I did in 2006. No one listens even now they just talk the talk - why? Colorado Springs cuts services - because they cannot afford them! This includes lights at night. It is just too expensive and paying off the bankers means that they cannot afford it (apparently)? Seems like Coloradans want others to pay for what they take for granted? ACTION #021 ask that you TURN OFF UNNECESSARY LIGHTS. The band wagon is rolling? Swamped by LIGHT and you are paying for it - turn OFF unnecessary lights at night - PLEASE! Please join the Light Brigade. Their campaign is described for you by the BBC in Manchester, England - my old home town! Clearly Manchester activists are joining the Clan du Neon - a Parisian group dedicated to reducing energy waste in the City of Lights, Paris, France! Vive la France AND Manchester! BTW the Scots are ALREADY reducing their carbon footprint according to Reuters - Och Aye the Noo. Darkness is as essential to our biologicl welfare (to our internal clockwork) as light itself. So now you kmow that we require the diurnal variation of night followed by day and NOT the profit driven 24 hour day. Told you so! CBS News: UN Says Nations' Greenhouse Gas Pledges Too Little & maybe JTL, Just Too Late? Told you so! The Dark Side of Light - the video documentary (with subtitles)! Light at night (LAN) and human health - this document is sponsored by the advocates of over lighting? It states that "..it is not clear at present that typical exposures are likely to pose a threat to human health." I think that we heard this before in the 20th century from the tobacco and asbestos industries or am I just stupid? BBC:Environment Agency - New rules to switch OFF unnecessary lights at night - at long last, BUT after 113 years, we may very well be Just Too Late? ABC News - Eroding Alaskan Village Appeals Lawsuit's Dismissal. At least when the village has gone the problem will be over - for them JTL for real? Gordon Hempton and Julia Baird, Newsweek - Light pollution is the EVIL cousin of noise pollution. So now we know! More "firies" will die without climate change action in Australia and the fire risk there is now tripled Egypt: Fertile Nile Delta Falls Prey To Climate Change - and so it goes on and on and ...... BUT no one listens, just like smoking and mesothelioma? Houston - we have a problem! Light pollution and conspicuous consumption. Dark Skies for the Adirondacks. Learn more about light pollution at Knowledge Rush and at Wikipedia. Hot off the press- IUCN new Dark Sky Advisory Group web site. Sock It To Me Baby! - "Apparently" a Frankenstorm could sock it to California, California Institute of Technology scientists claim. Debra Norvil, IDA board member, sends me this URL for the latest WWF World Earth Hour. Really good - on the back of the Copenhagen failure? NATURE January 2009 - Time To Turn Off The Lights and one year on, after Copenhagen, no one listens - we really will be JTL? I cannot remember if I posted Don Maclean's Starry Starry Night - if I did not then sorry - Armagh from September, 2009.This video is a Don Maclean/Star Wars inspired event! ENJOY the imagery AND the musical inspiration. Just returned from Leicester de Montfort University where Martin Morgan-Taylor hosted a symposium on the long awaited 3rd annex to PPS23. I will post the pdf of the synopsis of this debate when Martin has concluded his summary of today (22-Jan-2010) - watch this space! Professor Steve Rayner of the RCEP opened the debate - my best recollection being that we face a problem of too little research. My professional experience exactly. Research in LP will only be done if it makes a profit - it WILL NOT BE DONE! Undersea cable opens up Arctic to speed up profiteering by 52 milliseconds. Crass - and what a way to go? Bye, bye polar bears and hello profits! My web site is getting many "hits" from City and County Councils asking questions about "WASTED ENERGY". Wasted energy is that which is NOT conserved. - no one seems to realise that conservation is so easy - just turn OFF unnecessary lighting! Place a suggestion that turning lights OFF is a good idea (from the Carbon Trust) beside your light switches. It's not rocket science, turn it OFF if it is not needed and just conserve energy - DO NOT WASTE IT - THINK BEFORE YOU WASTE! 2000s - WARMEST Decade On Record. We really will be JTL as the politicians simply ignore the truth? Accelerating climate change and ignoring its consequences will mean that tomorrow will not just be another day - it will be payment day. And who pays most in those scenarios - the poor and not the privileged. The story below was yesterday (Tuesday 18th Jan 2010) - today Wednesday 20th Jan 2010, they change their tune- No guarantee of climate change treaty this year. Told you so! Countries could reach a binding agreement on climate change in Mexico City this year after failing to do so in Copenhagen, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Tuesday. - Chance will be a fine thing? A thought for today from nearly 50 years ago? The lyrics of Lennon and McCartney's "And I love her" - Bright are the stars that shine, Dark is the sky, I know this love of mine, Will never die, And I love her - Can such lyrics now be written by today's kids who think that stars are movie SFX and that the night sky is a sodium orange? We really have lost OUR heritage! No night sky to inspire romantic lyrics and romanticism and no night sky to inspire science - we really will be JTL Moon rise and Sun go down, Turns my whole world around, Little star up in the sky, Tell my sweet baby 'Please don't cry'" "Back Where It All Begins" by the Allman Brothers Band You will have heard that the Galloway Forest has been awarded IDA DarkSky Park status. The UK Dark Sky co-ordinator Steve Owens talks in Armagh about UK dark sky park "aspirations" - neat that Galloway got it right. We really will be JTL with a future facing failure? - Next 40 years the key to climate change. But we need to have started YESTERDAY! Jumping spiders exploit light pollution - clever arachnids, huh? This article was co-authored by Dr. Ken Frank, who authored the 1988 paper about LP and moths! Light can worsen migraine - so turn off YOUR lights and sleep in the DARK at night! YOU have the power - to save energy, conserve and reduce YOUR carbon footprints? Perils and Promises: Man Made Light At Night, ICROL Symposium, 11 March 2010. (Be there or be "square" and maybe uncaring?). In Nature the dark of night is as important as the light of day! Neat huh? The BIG problem is that although the truth does NOT have a sell by date, too many in power are just Blinded by the Light? Cold snap does NOT disprove global warming - although everyone wants to believe it. The cold snap is merely the exception that proves the rule - we really are on a path to future failure for the human race? At least planet Earth will survive - the human race will be the dinosaurs of the 21st century! I wonder what David Attenborough thinks? But then does he really care? Namibian landmark tree now on IUCN Red List - how long before the human race is added to the Red List? EPA to promote research on reducing light pollution - now that is progress. US national environmental health perspectives - The human health effects of blue light and more signicantly wrt to LP - Lose sleep (because of LAN) and gain weight:Another part of the obesity problem. Vietnam Red River at record low - Vietnam particularly vulernerable to climate change. Nothing new HERE then! The old Vietnamese URL is HERE. - I hope that it works. BBC TV and "The Day Of The Triffids" - .. "we had our eyes closed even when we could see" (Episode 2 needs iPlayer) - we really are Blinded by the Light! - told you so? An interesting "cake and eat it" approach to humans and climate change? Species face race against climate change - they have faced this race since 1897? Live Science - Santa's Rheindeer At Risk? - BTW when the North Pole ice melts and has gone completely, Santa will have to move? I wonder where he will go - the South Pole? Copenhagen a US/China stitch up - Copenhagen a waste of time - told you so! They finish with "an eye on next year" according to PhysOrg - an eye Blinded by the Light? - we really will be JTL! CBS News and Huffington Post - Acid Oceans: The "evil Twin" of Climate Change, also now known as the "osteoporosis of the seas". If YOU have this condition then pity the poor seas! Carbonic acid is destoying the natural carbonates. UN document shows Copenhagen summit falling short - told you so months ago - we really are JTL! Maybe YOU do not believe that the human race is accelerating global warming? Never mind when it last happened sea levels rose by 8 metres. We really are JTL! Copenhagen: Is the 24 hour day, of the modern "developed" world, killing off Life On Earth? It is not only bye, bye whip-poor-wills it would appear that Sarah Palin's state of Alaska will disappear - so it is bye, bye Alaska too. Guardian: No more polar ice within 7 years - told you so! No more polar bears outside of zoos in years to come. UK Envoy (Ed Miliband): Solve climate issues now, before leaders (have to)! At least Ed listened to my questions last week in Manchester when I gave him a copy of the CfDS handbook. Now I know that he can help by advocating that the world turns off UNNECESSARY lights at night and endorses the WWF Earth Hout turn off, Wednesday, 16tn December, 7 pm, this week - neat huh? If nothing happens I can blame him, Ed Miliband? Perhaps it would be better if the human race became extinct now that koalas and penguins are in decline, joining the polar bears and the songbird? Earth Hour in Copenhagen, Wednesday, 16th December - Lights will be turned OFF for one hour in Copenhagen to draw attention to the need to switch off UNNECESSARY light at night. It is a pity that they don't turn off ALL UNNECESSARY lights everywhere? Copenhagen - The Cuts Are Clearly NOT Enough - we face a purely palliative future? The harm has been done, some of it since 14 September 1897, according to the LA Times. The problems have parallels with earlier discoveries of factors with subsequent adverse health effects, eg ionising radiation, radioactivity, heavy metals, certain organic compounds, cigarette smoking and asbestos. There is NO fix - we are JTL? NIH - Missing The Dark - the human health implications of light at night? New star in the Plough/Big Dipper. Backyard astronomy colleague Francis Parnell tells me. At least there are dark night skies somewhere - God forbid that they disappear from human view. Chad Moore's NPS Rangers Make the Case for Dark Skies. Listen to what today's (and tomorrows) kids are missing - their night sky heritage. Taken from them by adult ignorance! What a sad, palliative, future the world will face! China emmissions could double by 2020? Why have the Copenhagen meeting? No one is gonna back off of "Economic Growth & Profits." US Republicans To Rain On Copenhagen Parade? Once again living in cloud cuckoo land where the only clouds are con-trails and there are fewer ncturnal creatures, like bats and whip-poor-wills! For the "political" intellectual amongst you, read The Politics Of Climate Change by Ed Miliband, MP I had an opportunity to talk with him last night and gave him a copy of the CfDS handbook. Let us hope that he reads it for Copenhagen. Fingers crossed? Warmer still, scientists say, lies ahead! Decade Of The 2000s Was Warmest EVER. So now YOU know - do something before it is JTL. Try for a starter turning off UNNECESSARY lights at night. You know it makes sense. COPENHAGEN WILL BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME - TOO MUCH TALK AND "F" ALL WALK! See below! Ifs, buts and maybes - Copenhagem MAY have a happy ending. Chance will be a fine thing? My colleague Colin Henshaw reports that biodiversity on Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa is in a state of "severe" decline? His colleague from Tabuk has just returned to explain that this is so. Colin predicted this sort of problem in 1994 - no one listened then and what is more they did NOT listen in 1897. Sad that Copenhagen will be such a waste of time and that we will be JTL Comments from ALDES on Cape Town light pollution from 2007. It is real nice to know that the media agree with me - Washington Post - Climate drama climax looks ELUSIVE in Copenhagne - I told you so below "Warming's Impacts Sped Up (sic), Worsened Since Kyoto. And Copenhagen will be a waste of time because politicians will not "bite the bullet"? BTW Antarctic Ice Loss Vaster, Faster Than Thought:Study - told you so!" BTW with Copenhagen IGNORING climate change, accelerated by human activity, we face The Most Surprising Results of Global Warming - with the rich getting richer? If you are a poor 3rd world entrpreneurs, sorry - just die and keep the rich happy? Another "told you so" moment for this web site master - "Some Sort of Climate Deal Certain - But It Won't Be Enough!" Nothing new there again - as usual! New video from the BBC and reported at LED Magazine - LED lighting in London helps cut light pollution. We really will be JTL - "Big developing states reject Copenhagen" - Told you so! Australian Politicians Fail To Grasp The Nettle of Climate Change. Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill - we are heading to that JTL future that I predicted ~4 years ago, and just watch, Copenhagen will add more politicnas who simply do NOT care? And ther's more - The world four degrees Centgrade warmer? If they stop flying and its con-trails overnight, llike they did after 9/11, we go up 1.6 deg
Guidance for the reduction of obtrusive lighting. From the UK's ILE . Thanks guys. Just watched Joanna Lumley "In the Land of the Northern Lights"seeing the Aurora Borealis from northern Norway (BBC2 TV 6 :15pm UK, Monday 29 Dec 2008 and only for 7 days on iPlayer) You will see the aurora some 48-49 minutes into the programme. Just fantastic. A life long ambition. Sad that others just see Aurora "Bognor Regis", like Sir Patrick Moore who lives in Selsey. Dr. John Mason says this in his LP video. Others just see light pollution/light at night - LAN/LP. Sad, very sad that kids cannot see real stars (and aurora) and believe them only to be SFX. In the Dark about Light Pollution? Get enlightened. From 2007 but still good. Does architectural lighting contribute to breast cancer? So if it does don't unnecessarily light buildings at night and hence help to reduce global warming. Absolutely NOTHING to do with LP/LAN and environmentalism. I have just watched a FAME reunion programme on UK Channel 4 TV. Fantastic - everyone can live forever. How sad that our future now is so compromised? "Climate change will increase concentrations of tropospheric ozone,... which would increase morbidity and mortality,..." So help reduce global warming by turning OFF unnecessary light at night.New Year Resolution idea? Turn OFF unnecessary lights and maybe help to stop Himalayan village global warming and their glaciers melting back? German Innovation - Street Lighting By SMS - neat huh? Swiss glaciers in full retreat - BBC News. So slow global warming by turning OFF unnecessary lights. IL Criminal Justice Information Authority did an extensive investigation, discovering that increased light is responsible for increased crime of all types. So HORS 251 really is a load of rubbish/garbage? Light Pollution - What's The Problem? Brian May's "very good friend" tells the story. Light pollution - its "hidden" harm? The 9th European Dark Sky Symposium, 17th - 19th, September, 2009, Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland. California At Night - A massive waste of energy and light (and money$$$$). Global Warming Might Cook Up Too Many Male Fish...a rise of 7 Fahrenheit degrees predicted by some (climate change) models for the end of the century would yield three males for every female, a ratio unfavorable for maintaining populations. - So reduce waste energy which contributes to global warming by turning OFF unnecessary light at night.Location, location.... The best places for astronomy in the UK. The Consequences of Light at Night? Colin Henshaw's Notes now on Facebook. Hope at last? Obama picks global warming expert as chief scientific advisor. Find the nearest hydrogen filling station for your future hydrogen EV hybrid? U.S. Cities spur action on climate change - WEH 28th March 2009 Canada kills its future ecology? The tar sand environment goes and "the most destructive fossil-fuel project on the planet" destroys our planet's future? British Euro MEP, Chris Davies takes dim view on light pollution. Moreover Europe is to carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions. Join Linda Nicholes in an EV 21st century? Use overnight "base load electricity" to power YOUR electric vehicle and do not waste energy creating light pollution - neat huh (and oh so simple)? The skies over Utah parks are threatened? Just more stupidity by Government. Let's reduce light pollution in 2009? A very good idea for International Year of Astronomy 2009. Arctic ice melting at alarming rates? So switch off unnecessary LAN? Keep lights on at night, waste more energy and add to polar melting. "Apparently " 2 "trillion" tonnes of Arctic ice has melted "prematurely" since 2003:NASA. The Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council. Promoting GOOD outdoor lighting. "light pollution is not really a pollution " This question was asked of an Internet search engine - it got this response HERE I hope that the person making this inquiry got a worthwhile answer? "Understanding Skyglow" ILE environmental document of understanding...........? Professor Gerhard Eisenbeis (Rich and Longcore, page 283)- 'Insects are sucked out of habitat areas (by LAN) as if by a vacuum, which may deplete local populations (of insects)....... Kolligs(2000) (this URL link does not access the reference itself - sadly none exists) found that the insects captured on each side of the greenhouse (studied) reflected habitat conditions on that side, providing evidence of the "vacuum cleaner" effect.' - Please realise that LAN/LP is maybe harming us, our environment and maybe compromising our long term future? Sadly, if we are not JIT we may well be JTL? Obama left with little time to cure global warming - Then how about turning off unnecessary lights to help? Common birds in decline."Since 1967 the average population of the common birds in steepest decline has fallen by 68 percent; some individual species nose-dived as much as 80 percent. All 20 birds on the national Common Birds in Decline list lost at least half their populations in just four decades." Wow - you don't say, nothing new there then and LAN had nothing to do with it? Frankly I don't believe it. Power blackouts could "blight" the UK - SKY NEWS. BTW I said this ~ 2 years ago. Light Pollution (The Video) - What's the problem? Download from Queen's Brian May web site. U.S. Cities to Spur Action on Climate Change by Going Dark for WWF’s Earth Hour 2009. Now you're talking!Calif. adopts tough greenhouse gas restrictions Good old Arnold? London to join Earth Hour 2009 says Boris Johnson. Nice one Boris, Ken could not ne bothered this inspite of my invitations. At least Boris has responded. IYA 2009 video telecom kick off Thursday 11th December 2008. Join in and air your thoughts? Poland - WEH - World Earth Hour set to be largest climate event in history? IUCN warned October of extinctions. More warnings from Poland, Wednesday, 10 December 2008. Obama vows to end global warming DENIAL after talks with Al Gore Fat chance - given the power of BIG OIL, BIG COAL AND BIG INDUSTRY? None know the meaning of the word sustainablity - the only word that they know is PROFIT aka greed? Climate change is "unequivocal, .. already happening, and is caused by human activity." Washington Post, 9 December 2008, 9:46 am. So turn OFF unnecessary light at night and REDUCE global warming caused by YOU? Think before it's JTL - Just Too Late. The Lighting Police are helping and so too does Need-Less! From National Geographic - This bulb will save planet Earth? And don't create LAN! A new video about light pollution at Starry Night Lights. Light pollution harms NOT JUST astronomers? An ANT tells the story of light pollution - what great sadness that we lose so much? "Greenhouse gases increase in the USA" - Bush fails - once again? Human degradation of the environment has the potential to stall planetary evolution?More harm to be done to the environment in the USA? NOTHING to do with LP/LAN More Light, More Crime: Chicago. Old news from 2000 but still relevant? Report HERE. Could Our Lights Actually Go Out......? If you are a media journalist wanting further information about LP/LAN and environmental issues of import then click HERE. Climate "juggernaut" marches on? -- huge droughts and floods, cyclones with increasingly more destructive power, pandemics of tropical disease, dramatic decline of biodiversity and increasing ocean levels," said Polish Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki. NATURE's brightest creatures not a match for light pollution? The Thai video of them. Al Gore: First ever political/"presidential" address on light pollution, LP/LAN! Climate change "tipping point" is fast approaching - and politicians remain "deaf"? Everything is "cracking" up? Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf due to collapse imminently? The Earth's "lungs" are moving towards their last gasp? News out now that deforestation in the Brazilian rain forest is up about 4 percent. Do the math in the USA and the maths in the UK and at this rate in ONLY 5 years deforestation will be at 20 percent. How fit would YOU be with 20 percent of your lungs gone? Endangered night skies: Light invades Utah's night skies. Salt Lake Tribune. Copied from the Astronomy 4 Kids page - This "hot" news from the Outdoor Lighting Forum (the OLF) of the USA. Tiffany Zambrano and Alexis Guerrero report on YouTube (from Alexis's house) on LP, light pollution, and EH, Earth Hour upcoming 8pm thru 9pm, 28 March, 2009. Clear skies. "We must not repeat the mistakes of the past,"advise given to Barak Obama.The coal, used to create the electricity which is WASTED creating LP/LAN, costs 360,000 million Euros annually. And YOU pay for it! Just in BUT one year old - page 14, Order of the Earth, Green Youth Corner:Light Pollution "Though common, the assumption that light pollution only poses a danger to aesthetic beauty and the view through a few telescopes, is incorrect. The adverse effects of light pollution range from health problems in humans to devastating environmental damage." So now you know. The Garden of Eaden - A horticulturalist agrees with Colin Henshaw and I? If you have been to this site before you will know that I have supported Earth Hour since it started 2 years ago. The WWF are having World Earth Hour 2009 - EH 2009 - watch their video HERE. Some Effects of Artificial Lighting On Wildlife and do you know what? Nocturnal animals are likely to be disturbed by bright illumination and deterred from using established foraging and breeding areas. Nothing new there then? Will US President-Elect Barak Obama persue the truth? Try this for size - 'The City "Domes" of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs?' Will his policy advisors agree? I certainly hope so! This is old news BUT no-one listened then (2003) and no-one listens now? "As the stars fade from view, a growing body of research suggests that excessive exposure to artificial night light can alter basic biological rhythms in animals, change predator-prey relationships, and even trigger deadly hormonal imbalances in humans." How Arctic melting will help shippers and oil companies (but not polar bears)? FALSE AURORAS: Warning: Not all northern lights are aurora borealis. Consider the following display of "false auroras" over Ambler, Pennsylvania, on Nov 19th. Fireflies in decline? Nothing new there then. Colin Henshaw predicted this (and much more) 15 years ago. Protecting the night sky above the Lower Wisconsin - neat huh? Wisconsin Journal - "I remember once when someone said, 'You know the view would be better if those clouds weren't up there,' " Zumm recalled. "I said, 'Dude! Those aren't clouds. That's the Milky Way!' " The stuff of dreams for the webmaster here in the UK? You heard it here first. House sparrows plummet 68% BBC TV 20-November 2008. If you read Dr. Kate Vincent's research you can learn more BBC TV today 19-Nov-2008. I have just heard that 3 big USA car companies are looking for a "bail out"? The reporter described them as "not paying attention to innovation" or words to that effect. May I remind folk that GM had the EV1 10 years ago. It is NOT that they failed to innovate - instead they became complacent and didn't bother to support innovation? With the EV1 charging at night, with unnecessary lights switched off you wake up to a car that does not pollute when you commute and power station engineers happy? Read that we should charge our EVs at night and switch off LAN? WEH - World Earth Hour is upcoming next March 2009. Someone today in the Philippines did a SEARCH and came back to this web site to view the Sydney EH composite from 2007 - neat huh? BTW If you read below that I am concerned that we do not conserve, that instead we waste profligately, how about this for a new story? Water will be in short supply by 2080. Maybe I will be dead but my relatives will not. Am I stupid or what? Why do we always hear discussion of energy provision? We waste far too much anyway - why do I not hear of conservation, conservation and more conservation? Switch off unnecessary lights at night - don't cause unnecessary LAN. Blinded by the Light? A handbook explaining some of the concerns which surround the 24 hour day caused by light at night -LAN. This is the frontispiece to the CfDS handbook which is now in pre-print. It is hoped that publication will appear soon - in the New Year at the latest. Scots urged to see the light in campaign for "dark sky parks"! The truth behind Britain's bright night skies. China's coal fires belch fumes, worsening global warming? BBC TV Wild China-Tibetan glaciers are melting (Sunday 16-Nov-2008). Sadly they are melting faster than they used to! Fires today in California - gosh? We wonder why? Irony! The NG November 2008 is unhappy with LAN. The New Yorker was unhappy last year! California has got it? Global warming is real and seas WILL rise. Schwarzenegger! Destruction of the future starts HERE - "The USA pursues drilling off Virginia". LAN kills bugs, birds, bats and many other animals. Now we see the onset of more harm WITHOUT regulation? I see a situation developing here like the money markets. When will the environment go into "meltdown"? UN puts a different "spin" on the modern "brown-out"? We used to have this when I was a kid - only we called them "pea-soupers" or London fogs etc. Streetlights and driving - "Light from ... street lights makes it harder for you to see the road ahead." So now you know that street lighting does NOT make it safer to drive at night? Very curious. Humans losing the battle against global warming and climate change: IEA?  Homer Glen leads the World and its City Fathers AgreeThis page section is under development but it shows residents and leaders of Homer Glen, a village in the conurbation of the city of Chicago, in Illinois, USA. Debra Norvil (cream jacket) has got back the names of folk in the picture line up to me (see caption details below). Homer Glen joined in with the rest of the World to attempt to make energy saving and sustainability a tangible reality. Homer Glen followed Sydney, Australia on the 1st birthday of Earth Hour 2007 to attempt to draw attention to the extent to which we WASTE energy every day and night. A 24 hour day problem in this global village? San Francisco ended with the Golden Gate having its floodlights turned off but the roadway lights, of course, were left illuminated. In short Home Glen turned off UNNECESSARY lighting which is all that EH (Earth Hour) is all about. I am looking forward to WEH next year, 2009 (World Earth Hour, 2009). Tell YOUR city fathers that if their township didn't join in then they will be responsible for future failure. Homer Glen made the effort this year and will continue to do so. Will your city leaders do the same? Picture figure captions - L to R: Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, Homer Glen Mayor James Daley, Homer Glen Trustee Russell Knaack, Homer Glen Trustee Margaret Sabo, Debra Norvil, Bob Gent IDA, and IDA Illinois Section Leader At Large Dave Toeppen. Somehow if others didn't join in this year then I guess that they will not bother next year. Sad isn't it? But it is real nice that Homer Glen knows the way forward. BTW we are now in 2010 - WEH 2009 built on EH 2008 and the WWF have their new video for Earth Hour 2010 HERE. Enjoy!
SOCIETY IS UNDER-ESTIMATING ITS EFFECTS !By the time people wake up to its "hidden" effects it will be "just too late"? This quote from Challenge magazine page 20, Summer 2006. Learn more about the problem at http://www.savethenight.eu/Home.html Here you will SEE the nature of this problem! It is much worse than you can ever imagine? We had four UK light pollution petitions! Many are now out of date. Examine, peruse and learn. If you see a need for another petition then please create it. The new one is HERE - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/switchofflookup/ One web address is here ..... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Floodlighting/ Another can be found here... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/starry-night/ And a rural campaign is here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Streetlighting/sign John Tunnicliffe has added... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Light-review/ And another here at........... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/light-pollution/ Whilst these petition links are now out of date I leave them here for information. The latest (March 2008) petition link however concerns Jodrell Bank's Merlin interferometer. The £85 million Government scientific funding cut-back puts Jodrell and Merlin at risk. Don't let Government ignorance fail our future in science. The petition web site is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/jodrellfunding/ - please sign up. There is a new book out there titled The Energy Age, by Robert Kyriakides of GENERSYS PLC who are the publisher. This retails at about £13 at B&Q! If you do not know anything about energy then read this book. Energy use, energy abuse and proper energy management are all included in the narrative. I have not read it fully. Watch this space for more. GENERSYS have a web site at www.genersys.com The energy which we waste at night, illuminating the night sky, should be powering our Electric Vehicles. It does not because of corporate incompetence? Please be kind enough to read "The City Domes of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs" Bill Moore, editor of EV World, has placed a link to this article, archive at EV World HERE.  What is 'Light Pollution'? See here ... LP - THE MOVIE!Light pollution is simply light that is having a bad effect on the environment. You can watch a WMV movie video explaining "The Problem?" by clicking HERE. The major effects are:
The purpose of this websiteLight pollution is unnecessary and can be controlled with very simple measures that cost very little. We aim to show you how YOU can make a difference and how YOU can improve your local environment. Remember that light at night needs to be enough to meet the need, it needs to be where it is wanted and at the time that it is wanted and it needs to be no more than will do the job! Turn off light at night (and at any other time) if there is no need for electric light? Switch it off! Do not waste energy! Do not warm planet Earth! Do not add to global warming! You know it makes sense? Or do you? Please do not be blind to that which you cannot see! The "hidden" effects of LP? This is a life experience for so many politicians - those in our world who are so blind that they WILL not see! The main pointsHere are some points about light pollution and its effects.
Potentially Worthwhile Links.....?Brian May is against LP. His Bang Universe web site is here - http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers The IDA is here -.... The CfDS is here .......... http://britastro.org/baa/content/view/168/2/ You can learn about Bob Mizon of the CfDS here.......... http://www.flamsteed.info/fasbobmizon.htm The Campaign to Protect Rural England is here....... http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/landscape-and-beauty/light-pollution/light-pollution-your-area.htmLightPollution.org is here (in Croatia/Hungary)....(no English translation yet) http://www.lightpollution.org/index.htm
Pierantonio Cinzano is here........... http://www.savethenight.eu/Home.html Prairie Astronomy Club, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA have an LP fact sheet here- http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/light.htm
Simply browse and enjoy, and then turn OFF your lights! All the best, web site manager Graham Cliff.
All the rest is history. If you are an historian how about this 3 MB pdf? It includes Sir Patrick Moore's signature on my Wilkins and Moore "Handbook for Telescope Making", Tony Bradshaw with his "REAL" telescope at Jodrell Bank and an image of ME with Tony's scope on the ADAS observatory roll-off roof, before light pollution wrecked astronomy in Timperley! Astronomy Now used it May, 1992. Small world isn't it?David Eicher used the same image as a front page cover on one of his books years ago (the other picture here is from my video projector's intro screen shot. I am standing on a TV weather map in the Albert Dock, Liverpool, England. My jacket I bought in Salt Lake City, after my wife photographed me in a book store holding David Eicher's book with my image on its front cover). The store in Salt Lake City had a Wilson's Leather shop. The store with David Eicher's book sold telescopes. I hope that Salt Lakers patronize these stores. BTW the guys in the B&W photo of 4 (now aged) astronomers are me, Colin Henshaw (co-discoveror of Supernova 1987A ), Robin Scagell, Vice President of the SPA and Gresham Professor Ian Morison of Jodrell Bank, Radio Telescope Observatory, University of Manchester, England). If you have bothered to read to here then look at Graham, Colin and Fred Talbot, when they were only 18 in 1968 in the pdf HERE! Enjoy it, if you can, in this unsustainable, light polluted, badly managed world! Sad that I am so cynical, isn't it? Can anyone offer me sustainable hope for our future? I added this 1.5MB pdf image to add to my "ego", which of course I do not have(?). I appear in 1994 with academic colleagues at the inauguration of the Lehigh 300kV STEM/AEM which achieved atom analysis resolution in 1996, a year later than I predicted in Boston in 1992 when I received the MAS/EMSA Presidential Award. My wife likes to tell friends that as an electron microscopist and astronomer "I know my place". Have YOUR Photo Opportunity To Have Your Say.A web page Light Pollution photo gallery has been in place now for just over a year(?). Its home page is at http://www.librapix.com/lightpollution/ It has images from activist anti-LP members motivated to bother to take a photo of an LP (or a light energy wastage) problem and to then post it. Not quite a YOUTUBE of LP but then LP is not very dynamic. Some of these photos are worthy of despair and distress. I like(?) numbers 1, 19&22, 45, 48, 59&60 (which are "ironic"), 72, 86, 89 and so on. Please be inclined to post your own. Maybe if you live outside the UK you could ask that a WORLD Gallery be created? You could even create your own. That reminds me - Is there already a World LP gallery site? What is its URL? Please get back if you know of one and I will post it here. Enjoy, or not, as the case may be - more irony. |
